12/09/2024
My sniffn table at the EuroSense conference in Dublin. I adapted it to the motto of the conference "A sense of global culture" and presented a selection of "smells of home" which I collected last year at the Pangborn sensory science conference in Nantes from 300 visitors. This year, I also wanted to investigate the connection of smell and touch and asked visitors to put their hand in the texture box and associate what they feel with a smell. It turns out that touching a soft fur is associated with the smell of vanilla - and not with the woody smell of mate or the leavy smell of grass. My table is turning into a multisensory table ☺️. I cannot wait to add sound and movement. But the highlight for me was the experiment I conducted. 200 people participated and I'm super curious to see the data and the statistics. This is just the first step of a bigger experiment. I didn't have the chance to listen to many talks but the topic that impressed me the most was about how to involve populations in sensory research that are usually left out - people from non-Western countries, LGBT+, neurodiverse, poor people. Which is exactly what I would like to do.
